Look who’s rolled into town (but where’s you know who?)
LEGENDARY ROCKERS ARE SPOTTED AHEAD OF CITY GIG - BUT NO MICK . . .
ROCK gods The Rolling Stones have arrived in Manchester ahead of their huge stadium show - but there was no sign of Mick Jagger.
The band are headlining at Old Trafford football ground tomorrow night - their first appearance in the city for nearly three decades.
Yesterday, three of the now fourpiece were seen arriving at their hotel ahead of the show but their charismatic frontman Jagger was nowhere to be seen. Sources suggested cricket fan Mick had nipped over to Leeds to see England win their Test match against Pakistan at Headingley.
But Jagger has also on occasion been known to stay at a different hotel from the rest of the band.
Lead guitarist Keith Richards, fellow guitarist Ronnie Wood and drummer Charlie Watts were all spotted pulling up at the five-star Radisson Blu Hotel, on Peter Street, itself a key site in music history with its former life as the Free Trade Hall.
The band, who formed in the Sixties and famous for their array of hits from Paint It Black to I Can’t Get No Satisfaction and Sympathy for the Devil, during their career spanning more than five decades, played the Ricoh Arena in Coventry on Saturday night.
And they boarded a Boeing 767 plane yesterday which landed at Manchester Airport, before a fleet of vehicles picked them up and ferried them into their new base in Manchester city centre.